Filing-spindle.



No. 678,72l. Patented July l6, I901. A. K. DEVOE.

FILING SPINDLE.

(Application filed Apr. 19, 1901.) (No Model.)

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FILING- SPINDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,721, dated July 16,1901.

Application filed April 19, 1901. Serial No. 56,602. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that LARNOT K. DEVOE,of Bos ton, in the county of Suffolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Paper-Files, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paper files for desk use for the purpose oftemporarily filing or retaining papers, and is intended as asubstitutefor the ordinary pointed spindle which is held in a vertical position bya supportingfoot and on which the papers to be retained are impaled.

The invention has for its object to provide a filing device which shallretain the papers without perforating them thus avoiding the injury ormutilation which would attend the use of a perforating or impalin gspindle.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed todescribe and claim.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a paper-file embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 1, showing the telescopic standard of the devicecontracted to separate the two paper clamping or grasping parts. Fig. 4represents a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a somewhat different formof stop arm cooperating with the telescopic standard and its head. Fig.5 represents a top plan view 'of my improved spindle.

The same characters of reference indicate similar parts or features inall the drawings.

In the drawings, Cl, represents a foot, which is preferably of circularform and adapted to rest upon a desk or table.

I) b are the parts or members of a telescopic standard supported by thefoot and extending vertically from the centralportion thereof, the partI) being tubular and affixed rigidly to the foot, while the part b ismovable in the part 1) toward and from the foot.

0 represents a paper-clamping head affixed to the upper end of the partb of the standard and preferably made in the form of a substantiallycircular fiat plate, the diameter of which may be substantially the sameor somewhat less than that of the foot a.

d represents a standard-extending spring which is interposed between thefoot or and the head c and normally extends the standard and raises thehead 0 as far as the stop arm next described will permit.

e represents a stop-arm which is affixed to and projects upwardly fromthe foot 61, and is bent at its upper end to form a stop-finger or clampe, which projects over the head 0 and limits theupward movement of thelatter by the spring 61.

The stop-arm c is preferably composed of a piece of wire, the centralportion 2 of which constitutes the acting portion of the finger c, whilethe end portions 3 3 connect said finger with the foot a. The portions 33 preferably pass through orifices 4 4, formed in the head 0, and areguided by said orifices, said orifices acting as guides,whereby rotarymovement of the head is prevented. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 I show theport-ions 3 coiled near their lower ends to form spring convolutions6,which permit the arm 3 as a Whole to swing back and forth between thepositions indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, the portions 3 being curved, sothat when the head is depressed it will swing the arm outwardly, asshown in Fig. 3, and when the head is raised it will return the arm tothe position shown in Fig. 1. In Fig. t the portions 3 of the arm arevertically arranged and are not caused to swing by the movement of thehead.

It will be seen that when it is desired to file papers the paper to befiled is pressed downwardly upon the head 0, thus separating the latterfrom the finger 6', so that the paper can be interposed between saidfinger and the head. When the head is released, it is raised by thespring, and the paper is clamped be tween the head 0 and finger c.

It will be seen that this improved device is compact and occupies butlittle space and is adapted to hold an accumulation of papers withoutperforating or injuring the same.

I claim-- 1. A paper-file comprising a foot, a stoparm projectingupwardly from the foot and bent at its upper portion to form aclampingfinger or stop, and a vertical telescopic standard supported bythe foot and having an extending-spring, and a head at the upper end ofthe standard which is pressed yieldingly against said finger by thestandard-extending spring, said standard serving to guide the head inits vertical movements.

2. A paper-file comprising a foot, a cylindrical vertical telescopicstandard supported thereby and having a head at its upper end, a springcoiled about said standard and normally pressing said head upward, and astoparm projecting upwardly from the foot and through guides in the headwhereby rotary movement of the head is prevented, said stoparm having anupper portion extending over the head to coact therewith as a clamp.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

W'itnesses:

G. F. BROWN, 0. C. STECHER.

ARNOT K. DEVOE.

